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Mapping of German Liturgical Music

The Jewish Music Research Centre is proud to present a map of all known and available…

Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire

… variant. Although, Libau was a modern city with German culture, my father picked for me a Lithuanian teacher in a … they are renegades or assimilants, and detest all Jewish cultural values. 4) The few composers who remained within … could be printed, for soon the world-war broke out and all cultural activities had to stop. I was enlisted in the …

A Recovered Voice from the Past

… far beyond this constricting narrative to recover Jewish culture, economics, politics, and society. Yet something of … in Ottoman Palestine, the creation of a new secular Jewish culture, with a new national repertoire of Zionist songs, … as a whole. He left behind a legacy of iconic books and cultural artifacts that still define in many ways the Jewish …

Karel Berman

… was deported to Theresienstadt, where he took part in cultural life as a singer, composer and director. On 11 July …

Isaac Levy

… and piyyutim written by poets of the golden age of Jewish culture in Spain, such as Rabbi Yehudah Halevi, Rabbi …

Eliyahu Hacohen

… There are scholars of Jewish and Israeli culture whose crucial contributions remain sealed to those … movement through the prism of one of its most effective cultural products: songs destined to be performed by “the … Tel Aviv), he graduated from the Pardes Chana Agricultural High School. In the late 1950s while serving as …